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Taliban Formations Largely Intact, Say will Give Up Kandahar
Test of Karzai's Independence: Shrewd Tactical Move
Islamic Movement Challenged America: Victory not now but inevitable
Jewish Leaders Preparing U.S. for Assault on Iraq and President Hussain
Arafat being Squeezed to Go After the Islamic Resistance
{War news: A U.S. helicopter crashed in flames at the U.S. air strip 
set up 
south of Kandahar. It was attributed to an "accident"; at the same time 
reporters on the spot reported the U.S. troops were on high alert as 
there 
were signs of attempts to penetrate the perimeter. Firing went on for a 
while 
in the night.}
{At the foot of the Tora Bora hills, two attacks on Al-Qaida fighters 
by 
Afghan mercenaries backed by B-52 bombers were repulsed, one on Dec. 5 
and 
one on Dec.6)
(Following analysis by But Shikan):
TALIBAN WILLING TO GIVE UP KANDAHAR: On December 6, a surprise deal was 
made 
between the Taliban and Mr. Karzai, the newly appointed "Prime 
Minister" of 
"Post-Taliban" Afghanistan. The Taliban will be allowed to withdraw to 
their 
villages in good order, leaving their heavy weapons behind. In return 
for 
their not fighting, their prisoners will be released. Kandahar will be 
turned 
over to the forces of Mullah Naqibullah, a Soviet-era mujahid leader, 
not to 
Karazai. Thus the Taliban are not recognizing the set-up arranged in 
Bonn.
WHY NOT FIGHT ON?
1. The Taliban have not suffered any heavy losses and their remarkable 
discipline is intact. They could fight on.
2. The American bombing has made normal life impossible, has destroyed 
the 
infrastructure of city life and has created a humanitarian catastrophe.
3. The Taliban are a guerrilla force. Any fighting in fixed positions 
against 
the most powerful air force in the world would destroy its guerrilla 
potential.
3a. The U.S. knows that it can't fight these lions of Allah man to man. 
Hence 
the U.S. has not rushed in with its own forces, relying rather on 
tribals, 
mercenaries and Afghan bandits behind a curtain of bombs. In the few 
brushes 
with the Taliban, the U.S. forces came off second best.
4. The Taliban willingness to give up authority in Kandahar also puts 
Karazai 
and the Pashtuns in general to the test. Karazai will now learn whether 
he 
can make a deal which will save the Pashtuns or will he have to follow 
American orders?
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IN AN OVERALL GRAPH OF MODERN HISTORY, ISLAM IS EMERGING VICTORIOUS. In 
1988, 
the Soviets were defeated in Afghanistan and the USSR disintegrated. In 
2001, 
Islam challenged America, which was unthinkable in military terms even 
for 
Imam Khomeini. The Muslims are withdrawing under the impact of superior 
American firepower but the oppressed have seen the challenge and the 
defiance. The world will never be the same.
WHICH OTHER NATION COULD WITHSTAND BOMBING FOR 60 DAYS WITHOUT AIR 
COVER? 
This was faith against B-52s. Faith has won but the poor masses 
suffered too 
much; hence the withdrawal. Observers say that the U.S. army would 
surrender 
in a day or two if it was faced by similar air power without air cover.
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THE DANGER, observers say, is that the U.S. marines will attack when 
the 
Taliban start withdrawing without their heavy weapons. The Iraqis were 
similarly attacked and slaughtered when they left Kuwait with their 
tank guns 
muzzled.
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On December 6, America's Jewish aspirant to power, Joseph Lieberman, 
urged on 
Fox News, about 11.15 pm, that the U.S. must attack Iraq to get rid of 
Saddam 
Hussain. He also urged the creation of a "northern alliance" in Iraq.
Muslims should realize that the stories against President Saddam 
Hussain are 
largely myths created by propaganda. Since 1990 he has focused on 
opposing 
Israel and the U.S. The Jews want him out. The Islamic movement should 
recognize this fact. Al-Raees Saddam Hussain is no longer an enemy of 
Islam 
though he is very vigilant and ruthless against his powerful enemies 
who want 
to destroy him and Iraq. President Hussain today has more popular 
support in 
Iraq than ever before.
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HAMAS Islamic leader Shaikh Yasin has been put under house arrest by 
Arafat. 
The Israelis are using rocket fire to "help" Arafat to go ahead and do 
their 
dirty work for them. It's obvious now that "terrorism" and "authentic 
Islam" 
are interchangable terms in the lingo of Bush and the Zionist media.
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Sis. Hamdiyah Abdul-Aleem, a media watch activist, has answered the 
hate mail 
we received from Mauri Salaakhan and Yahya (John) of 
ININ@ININ.NET. She writes:
"Dear Saalakhan (and your friend Yahya),
"I wanted to write to you ever since I read the letter that you sent to 
Imam 
Kaukab Siddique of Baltimore, Maryland and New Trend Magazine regarding 
his 
loyalty to Allah Ta’ala, the Prophet Muhammad (saw), Islam, and the 
Imam’s 
defense of the World’s Muslim Ummah.
It seems as if you do not understand why Imam Siddique writes about the 
friends of the enemies of Islam the way he does.  I am not a learned 
person 
but, is it not his duty to help the Muslims who stray to a way back to 
the 
“Straight Path?”
You named several groups in your letter who came under attack from not 
only 
Imam Siddique but many of the Muslims of this world.  You seem to 
believe 
that it is right according to Islam that we should accept the 
oppression, 
slaughter, starving, internment, and all of the other atrocities being 
committed against those who love Allah (SWT) under the guise of “a war 
against (or on) terrorism” (a.k.a. war against or on Islam).  A'oozu 
billahi 
minash-shaitanir-rajeem!
One of the greatest enemies of Islam, the son of 
another of the greatest enemies of Islam, said out of his very own 
mouth 
that the actions he has ordered is a “crusade.”  What else do you (and 
whomever from C.A.I.R wrote the message demanding that the Muslims stop 
disbelieving in the sincerity of george bush jr.) need to know?
How many of the countries named by bush jr. to be attacked are not 
Muslim 
dominated countries?  Why is that?  Do you believe that only Muslim 
countries have residents who are against the foreign policies of the US 
government?  Was Timothy McVeigh Muslim, from a Muslim country?  A 
country 
cannot attack itself, but why are comrades of Timothy McVeigh not being 
interned as the innocent Muslims are being interned, tortured, 
isolated, 
and, on at least one occasion, killed?  Do you believe that he 
(McVeigh) was 
the sole perpetrator of the Oklahoma bombing?  Do you believe that the 
term 
used most freely by the comrades of bush jr. (“collateral damage”),a 
same 
term first made popular by Timothy McVeigh, is merely a coincidence?  
Do you 
believe that the oil, natural gas, gold, other precious metals, and the 
position of Afghanistan in Central Asia has absolutely no bearing on 
the 
attack against Afghanistan?  How about the knowledge that the Taliban 
refused to give the rights away to the oilmen responsible for attacking 
and 
destroying the poorest country in the world in order to kill “one” man?  
Why 
do these oilmen who brought Usama to the US and greeted him with a 
reception 
want him dead?
Why do they want military tribunals (secret) if, for some 
reason, he is not killed?  Why do they not want him to testify in a 
public 
trial?  Perhaps the lack of even “circumstantial evidence” has 
something to 
do with it. Now, are the preceding questions any reason at all for 
devastating a country that was desperately poor to start with?  Yet, 
you 
support the enemies of Islam against the Muslims of the world and 
anyone who 
stands up for Islam as we have been commanded by Allah Ta’ala and told 
by 
the Beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw).
And what about Palestine?  Do you believe that the Zionist have the 
right to 
exterminate the Palestinians for “fighting back” against occupation, 
slaughter, torture of Palestinian children, aggression, evil?”  Why are 
some 
people referred to as “freedom fighters,” while others (unacceptable to 
people of european descent) are considered terrorist?  These are the 
types 
of concerns that Imam Siddique fight against, as well as, exposing 
those who 
say that they are Muslims while taking the enemies of Islam as friends 
against Muslims, and attempting to sway those who love Allah (SWT) and 
the 
Prophet Muhammad (saw) to take those enemies of Islam as friends.
Were you one of those who “broke bread” with the enemies of Islam on 
the 
first day of Ramadhan, even though the man “at the head of the table” 
is the 
very man who ordered the destruction of the poorest country in the 
world 
(even throughout Ramadhan) and has stopped (and attempting to stop in 
the 
future) the Muslims from paying their duty to their Lord by aiding 
those in 
need during Ramadhan and throughout the world.  Do you want the Muslim 
Ummah 
to accept a man who has stolen the presidency of the American people as 
an 
honorable and truthful man?  Do you want the Muslims of this world to 
accept 
a man who, on several occasions, invited a known war criminal and 
staunch 
hater of Muslims to the white house of America and gave him and 
additional 
$2.7 billion to speed up the extermination of the Palestinian people?  
Are 
these the people you choose to defend and at the same time, attempt to 
degrade a man who defends Islam with his mouth, his pen, and, as you so 
joyfully mentioned, his body?  How dare you?
If you fear the enemies of Islam more than you fear the wrath of Allah 
Ta’ 
ala, then so be it.  But while you’re at it, perhaps you had better 
send 
letters such as the one you sent to Imam Kaukab Siddique to the authors 
of 
the following fatwah:"
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Important Declaration From Ten Scholars After Taliban Withdrawal.
{Here the eloquent sister has attached a famous Fatwa urging Muslims to 
stand 
firm against the Kuffar.
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